Re: Re: Athena and Forms

> You mentioned needing the responsiveness of "AJAX".  If you want  
> your "forms" to be responsive, they shouldn't be forms at all, but  
> remote calls with athena.
>
> [...]

You make a very good point - thanks for the suggestions. :)

> If your application already relies on Athena, you won't lose  
> anything by doing things this way, and you will gain a huge amount  
> of responsiveness.  If you want to support browsers that can't run  
> Athena, you can always have a form representation in your  
> application which would work with both plain-vanilla pages with  
> server-side validation and fancy Athena stuff on the client and  
> keep separate UIs for those two cases.

There surely aren't many browsers that don't support Athena or are  
you talking about other devices and methods?

> [...]
>
> >Any plans to support Twisted Web2?
>
> Yes, but they require effort.  It does not support web2 now, and  
> there is pretty much nobody working on it because first web2 has to  
> be finished.
>
> At the very least, this list needs to be emptied out:
>
> http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/query? 
> status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=Web2-Gold-Master
>
> and we could definitely use some help with that.  Please have a  
> look and consider contributing some patches :).

I will definitely take a look - hope any patches I submit don't  
embarrass me too much. :-$

Thanks again,
AJ